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Season 3 - Episode 115 - Do you spend too much time hurrying? · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning from the Chicken Coop
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  podcast with Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and
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  master mindset coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives and possibilities, we help
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  you to cultivate a mindset that leads you to create
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  the best version of yourself you could ever
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  imagine. Join Kim every morning from one
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  of her favorite happy places, her Chicken Coop,
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  along with all her chickens. Hey
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  everybody, good morning from the Chicken Coop. So
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  I want to talk to you about always being in a
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  hurry because I think this is one of the most toxic
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  things that people do to themselves, constantly
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  rushing around. If there's one thing that you
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  can change quickly and you can make a massive
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  difference in your life with, it's this factor. If
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  you are constantly rushing, if you find yourself
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  constantly rushing, rushing, rushing, rushing, you are
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  setting yourself up for a massive amount of stress, a
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  massive amount of dis -ease to come into your body
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  because chemically when you have stress, your body
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  fills up with all the different chemicals and
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  enzymes and it's just stress pours in that way
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  and your cells take it all in. And
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  if you don't think that's true, boy, you need to do
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  some research because if there's one thing that we
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  know now for sure, it's that stress can take a
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  person out in no time at all and dis -ease, I always
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  say it that way because if you look at the word
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  disease, it is dis -ease, meaning you are under
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  stress and it tells us something and we need to
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  be practical about it and pay attention to it. And
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  one of the biggest things that causes dis -ease is
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  the fact that we are always in a damn hurry and
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  we don't always need to be in a damn hurry. Yet
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  we are, yet we are and we do it to ourselves
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  constantly, constantly, constantly and we don't
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  stop and think about the fact that I've got to
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  recollect myself to get out of this state of stress
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  because if I stay in this state of stress, I'm going
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  to cause myself to have less productive results.
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  That's the very first thing. I'll
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  tell you right now, if you're always in a hurry,
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  you are having less productive results. If
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  you are always in a hurry, you are not doing 100 % of
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  the work that you are capable of doing. So
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  no matter what your degree is, I don't care if you
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  have a bachelor's degree, I don't care if you've got a
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  doctorate or master's degree, whatever it might
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  be, you are not giving it your full base of knowledge
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  because you are focused on something that is chemically
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  impossible when you are under stress and stress is
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  completely and totally related to the cause of
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  hurrying all the time. So because of how our society
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  is wired, because of all the things that we put on
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  our plate in a day, we get into that stress
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  response of hurry way too much, whether it's to pack
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  lunches, whether it's to get out the door, whether
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  it's to simply get to bed. I
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  have a client who constantly is in a hurry
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  to get to bed, so she stresses all day long about
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  what time she is going to go to bed at night because
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  she's got to get enough sleep and if she doesn't
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  get enough sleep, then she doesn't have a good day.
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  So she spends the whole day
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  worrying about sleeping and trying to get to sleep
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  early, but her whole entire day to that point when she
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  gets to that 8 .30 mark when she wants to be in
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  bed is stress. The whole day. Imagine
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  this. Just stop and think about this
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  for a second because throughout the day she's
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  like, oh I've got to hurry up and get this done
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  because otherwise I'll have to do it later and I
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  won't be able to get to bed. How
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  great do you think her sleep is at that point?
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  It's not. The
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  sleep is not great at that point because unfortunately
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  she has undone everything great because of her level
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  of stress that she's under. So
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  it's incredibly important that you understand what
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  I'm talking about because if you don't, you don't
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  see how this is affecting you across the board. So
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  I'm going to challenge you to look through your life
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  and see are you in a constant state of hurry?
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  Where do you show up for hurry
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  all the time? What are those things that you
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  are doing to yourself all the time that cause this?
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  And I say doing to yourself
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  because we do not have to be in a hurry. We
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  can change things. If it means getting up a
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  little bit earlier, do it. I
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  can't tell you how much I have to stress this to my
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  clients because the reality is, well, it's always a
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  hurry in our house in the morning. Why
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  is it always in a hurry? Well,
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  people can't find things. Well,
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  it's just tough to get the kids out the door or it's
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  tough to get myself out the door. I
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  always get distracted. Look at the patterns of what's
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  causing it. Look at the patterns of your,
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  you know, when you wake up, are you checking email
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  right away? Are you responding to emails
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  that don't need you to respond to them urgently
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  for hours? Yet you're doing it at six o
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  'clock in the morning. It might mean that you
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  actually have to wake up a half hour earlier in order
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  to have your day be peaceful. You
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  know, one of my practices that I do for myself, and
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  I truly do this for myself because it makes me feel
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  good. I love to make muffins. I
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  don't know what it is. I like to bake muffins and I
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  love to get up early in the morning and make
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  muffins before anybody else is up. So
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  when they wake up, there's hot muffins. And
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  this is somewhat of a active meditation for me.
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  Somewhat, it just fills my soul. I
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  like the smell in the house. I
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  like the act of doing it and I do nothing else
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  while I'm making those muffins. I'm
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  not listening to anything. I'm
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  not doing anything. I'm just in the present moment
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  making those muffins. But that requires that I get
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  up 45 minutes earlier, but it's worth it to me
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  because it sets the tone for my day. I
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  feel great and I'm not in a state of rushing. If
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  I have to make muffins and rush to do it to try to
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  get the feeling, the whole purpose of it is gone. So
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  look at your patterns. See what you need to do in
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  order to help yourself with this. And
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  for the love of God and all that's holy, stop
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  rushing around because you're causing your body so
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  much distress, so much anguish, so much dis -ease
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  that you are going to get yourself sick. And
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  if you can't conquer this, I'm telling you, if you
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  don't choose, let me rephrase that, if you don't
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  choose to conquer this, you will meet with that fact
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  where someone will say to you, you have hypertension,
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  you have high blood pressure, you have this
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  issue, you have an ulcer, you have migraines, you
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  have, you know, your neck is constantly so stressed
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  that there's no blood going to it. These
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  things will show up and then they only get worse
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  from there. You're having heart issues, you're
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  having liver issues because of all the toxicity in
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  your body. So do yourself a favor while
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  you have the opportunity. Take
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  advantage of it. Stop hurrying. It'll
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  kill you. I hope you guys are well and
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  I hope you have a very peaceful day and I will
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  see you all tomorrow. Bye.